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Recycle your old clothes!

Refashioning and recycling old clothes has been done for years, but now with a recession looming and eco-chic taking centre stage, we can start to rejoice in the wartime “Make do and mend” lessons our grandmothers learned. Recycling old clothes doesn’t have to be boring, though – a lot of times the resulting garment is even better than the starting one! If you get even one more wear out of it than it counts as a win for the planet and your wallet.

As I mentioned last week, this is the time of year that I assess my wardrobe for the upcoming season, taking note of what I need, and pulling out the clothes I no longer wear or have worn out. These clothes usually just go to the charity shop, but this year I’m going to take an extra step of sifting through them to see what can be refashioned into something new!

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